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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonidae) » Phygadeuontinae » Phygadeuontini » Endaseina » Endasys

Genus Endasys

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Ichneumon - Endasys Ichneumon - Endasys - female Ichneumon - Endasys - female unidentified Ichneumonid - Endasys - male unknown ichneumonid - Endasys - female Endasys - female Endasys - female Endasys oregonianus male - Endasys oregonianus - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps)
Superfamily Ichneumonoidea (Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps)
Family Ichneumonidae (Ichneumonid Wasps)
Subfamily Phygadeuontinae
Tribe Phygadeuontini
Subtribe Endaseina
Genus Endasys

Numbers

73 nearctic species

Identification

"easily distinguished from other Cryptinae genera by the median dorsal carina of first tergite, strong at least in front of spiracle; prescutellar transverse groove with a strong median longitudinal carina; truncation of hind tibia approximately transverse with spurs inserted at apex; lower tooth of mandible slightly to distinctly shorter than upper tooth; and hind edge of mesoscutum with a transverse break just in front of the prescutellar groove (Townes 1970, Luhman 1990)." -GONZÁLEZ-MORENO 2010

Life Cycle

Species of this genus oviposit in sawfly cocoons. Bob Carlson's comment here.

Hosts are mostly sawflies of Hymenoptera Diprionidae, Tenthredinidae and Argidae (Luhman 1990), but also Lasiocampidae, Pyralidae and Tortricidae moths and other parasitoids such as Braconidae (Yu et al. 2005).

Print References

Gonzalez-Moreno, A., Bordera, S., & Delfin, H. (2010). A new species of Endasys Foerster (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae) from Mexico. Zootaxa, 2648(1), 61-68.
Contributed by Bob Carlson on 6 November, 2009 - 2:08pm
Additional contributions by tom murray, behmrachel
Last updated 31 October, 2019 - 7:05pm

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